Axes Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Everyday US Marines make possible the impossible and then go about their business like it's just the way things are supposed to be.”

— Mark W Boyer

“Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem.”

— Ronald Reagan

We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess.

— James L. Jones

We should never lose sight of the ethos that has made the Marine Corps - where 'every Marine is a rifleman' - one of…

— Robert M. Gates

The American Marines have it [pride], and benefit from it. They are tough, cocky, sure of themselves and their buddies. They can fight and…

— Mark W. Clark

Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines.

— Ronald Reagan

...The Marines have been the first to land-on embattled beaches throughout the world-we share the unfaltering confidence of all Americans that they will land…

— Herbert F. Leary

With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine, discard, define,…

— David A. Freedman

...let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The campaign in Iraq illustrates the continuing progress of military technology and tactics, but if there is a single overriding lesson it must be…

— Wesley Clark

“Just remember,' a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel told me as he strapped his pistol belt under his arm before we crossed into Kuwait, 'that…

— Chris Hedges

For the mission's sake, our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in the past battles - who…

— James Mattis